FMA movie - redux viewing

[timepiececlock]

Okay, that whole Roy/Havoc/Breda snow conversation?

Why wasn't Roy angsting about all this stuff in the season finale? He was all "The world is imperfect" and "Ding dong the bastard's dead" and "Let's eat lots of apples" and stuff. How did we go from the beginnings of [relative] peace of mind to brooding about the people he's stepped on to get to the top? How did we go from apples to wallowing?

This was my biggest confusion in the fim, and remains despite a different translation. Dunno why I was hoping it would be clearer.

I still don't buy that the person he's "waiting for" is Ed. That makes...NO SENSE WHATSOEVER given how they parted in episode 48.


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Izumi: Still the prettiest, even dead.



EDIT 1: Why do subbers translate "Nii-san" as "Ed" or "Edward"? I've been an otaku long enough to know that's not what "nii-san" means.

EDIT 2: You know, the focus on Nazis is interesting and ironic when you consider the massacres the Japanese led against the countries of Asia in WWII.

Comments

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

This might sound totally stupid, but given the weird 180 Roy took between the end of the series and the movie, I thought that they meant the person Roy was waiting for ... was himself. At the end of the flick, the old Roy had returned - using his alchemy, being a field commander and taking part in the world once again, because he was needed.

Or maybe I was wrong ...

[flutingfrenzy.livejournal.com]

For the record, I really really REALLY like donna_c_punk's idea. But also, I kind of figured the "apples to wallowing" was the result of shock followed by reality sinking in. Especially since, I mean, at the end of the series he was still a Brigadier General and being hand-fed by Hawkeye. Of course, that was pretty much an unconscious rationalization on my part that does make slightly less sense now that I think about it, at least without elaboration.

I was so torn up about Izumi. Man. Whyyyyy. Watching these last couple episodes in the dub damn near killed me.